[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/9/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Sep 9 07:47:48 PDT 2015
Just How Democratic is California? Republican Party Chair Leaves Out
His Party in Announcing Senate Bid <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75895>
Posted onSeptember 9, 2015 7:45 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75895>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Former chair of Republican Party Duf Sundheimannounces his bid
<http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-sundheim-senate-campaign-boxer-20150520-story.html>without
mentioning he’s a Republican or his chairmanship of the CA Republican
party. The closest he comes in an emailed press release is this:
In 2012, Sundheim reached across the political aisle to help
Democrat Mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, pass sweeping pension reform
with the support of 70% of San Jose voters. During this period,
Sundheim also served as an advisor to Superintendent John Porter in
San Jose’s underserved Franklin-McKinley School District. They
tirelessly battled bureaucracy and special interests to ensure the
district put the children first, doubling the number of students who
earned grades that placed them on the Sylvandale Honor Roll.
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“Conan O’Brien Tries to Give Lincoln Chafee a Lift in the Polls”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75893>
Posted onSeptember 9, 2015 7:42 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75893>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/09/conan-obrien-tries-to-boost-lincoln-chafee-into-the-1-percent-you-failed-poll-tells-him/?ref=politics&_r=0>
Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor, has failed to
garner a single supporter in the last four national polls, which
have queried a total of 1,475 Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters.
The latest poll came after Mr. Chafee got free publicity from Conan
O’Brien, the comedian who began a “Get Lincoln Chafee to 1%”
campaign on his television show in August.
Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University
Polling Institute, addressed the comedian’s efforts in the poll’s
analysis: “Sorry, Team Coco,” he wrote, using a nickname for Mr.
O’Brien and his fans. “You failed: Maybe you should think about
switching to Jim Gilmore,” Mr. Murray wrote, referring to another
candidate, a Republican, who is failing to register.
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“Hillary Clinton’s secret weapon in campaign finance reform: Shame”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75891>
Posted onSeptember 9, 2015 7:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75891>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LAT
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-clinton-dark-money-20150909-story.html>:
Hillary Rodham Clinton knows her plan to stop big businesses from
secretly funneling tranches of cash into politics may not fly with
the Supreme Court and Congress, so she has a backup plan: publicly
shame the companies.
Clinton is embracing one of the few effective tactics for loosening
the grip on big money in politics. The plan she announced Tuesday to
force publicly traded companies to disclose all political giving
comes as a growing chorus of academics and activists are finding new
ways to expose companies that hide their political maneuvering.
Many major companies are responding by coming clean. They are
getting out of the game of giving so-called dark money, or funding
from nonprofit groups that aren’t required to disclose the sources
of their money. In many cases, the donations became a public
relations nuisance and even a corporate liability
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California Legislature Passes Resolution Opposing Evenwel Concept of
One Person, One Vote <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75889>
Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 3:44 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75889>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read it here.
<http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SJR13>
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“Clinton’s campaign finance proposal & the long road to reform”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75887>
Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 3:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75887>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tom Mann writes.
<http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/09/08-clinton-campaign-finance-reform-mann>
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“Right Wing’s False Narrative on Scott Walker Probe Fueling Attack
on Election Watchdog” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75885>
Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 10:10 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75885>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brendan Fischer blogs.
<http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/09/12923/Walker_JohnDoe_GAB>
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Bob Mutch Book Talk in DC <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75883>
Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 10:08 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75883>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Go hear Bob talk about his terrific book,Buying the Vote:
<http://www.amazon.com/Buying-Vote-History-Campaign-Finance/dp/0199340005>
*BOOK TALK: <http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/events/>Thursday,
September 10, at noon
*
*National Archives I, Research Center, G-25 (Penn. Ave. Entrance
<http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/washington/>)
*
*/Buying the Vote/*
*Robert E. Mutch*will discuss the history of campaign finance from the
first Federal legislation in 1907 to the Citizens United decision in his
book,/Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform./
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@JeffreyToobin, @Maddow, Dan Rather in Hillary Clinton Video Talking
Citizens United <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75881>
Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 9:03 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75881>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Watch <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oABt-UqdUDw>.
Talking of overturning Citizens United may be good policy, but it also
appears to be good politics, especially as Hillary Clinton faces
pressure from the left on the issue from Bernie Sanders and now Larry
Lessig.
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“Supreme Court case based in Md. could have wide impact”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75879>
Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 8:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75879>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Baltimore Sun
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-redistricting-case-20150906-story.html>:
A little-noticed lawsuit brought by a Maryland man challenging the
state’s contorted congressional districts will be heard this fall by
the Supreme Court — where it has the potential to open a new line of
constitutional attack for opponents of gerrymandering.
Stephen M. Shapiro, a former federal worker from Bethesda, argues
that the political map drawn by state Democrats after the 2010
census violated the First Amendment rights of Republicans by placing
them in districts in which they were in the minority, marginalizing
them based solely on their political views.
The issue before the Supreme Court is whether a lower court judge
had the authority to dismiss the suit before it was heard by a
three-judge panel. But Shapiro hopes the justices will also take an
interest in his underlying claim.
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ELB Podcast, Episode 4. Bruce Cain: Author Meets Critics
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75870>
Posted onSeptember 8, 2015 7:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75870>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Have efforts to reform the American political system backfired? Do
changes in rules for campaign financing, redistricting, government
transparency and election administration have unintended and undesirable
consequences? On this special Episode 4 of the ELB Podcast, we hear from
Bruce Cain, author of the terrific new book,Democracy, More or Less
<http://www.cambridge.org/bo/academic/subjects/law/us-law/democracy-more-or-less-americas-political-reform-quandary?format=PB>,
and four scholars offering critiques of Cain’s book. Listen to a
September 2015 panel on Cain’s new book at the American Political
Science Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
Listen at SoundCloud<https://t.co/bpQFy3bpSw>or subscribe to the ELB
Podcast atiTunes
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/elb-podcast/id1029317166?mt=2>.
Participants:
/Bruce Cain/, Stanford University
/Thad//Kousser/, University of California, San Diego
/Richard//L.//Hasen/, UC Irvine School of Law
/Frances//E.//Lee/, University of Maryland, College Park
/Raymond//J.//La Raja/, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
/Richard//Pildes/, New York University
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